Gregory Fusco, Vice President for Government and Public Affairs, Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) speaks with Higher Education Digest. Here's a little bit about distance education ...

Measuring distance education: The new bill proposes new federal methods to evaluate distance learning.

Accreditors and institutions have developed new ways to measure distance learning. We do not want a new federal rulebook on how to do this. Congress is discussing reviews of distance learning because it plans to expand federal grants and loans to new students and institutions using distance education.Go here for the full interview.